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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/23/open_season_episode_5/

Open Season exposes the real price paid for Radiohead's new album

By Ashlee Vance in Mountain View (ashlee.vance@theregister.co.uk)
Published Tuesday 23rd October 2007 05:16 GMT

Radio Reg Forget the entertainment hacks. It takes a bunch of open source pundits to figure out how much people really paid for Radiohead's new album.

Well, in actual fact, it takes El Reg's own Andrew Orlowski who disclosed the Radiohead scoop on the latest installment of Open Season. To find out the real price people paid to download In Rainbows you'll have to tune into the show. I can promise it's a heck of a lot less than you thought.

Orlowski joined the usual Open Season cast of characters, including your reporter, Mulesource chief Dave Rosenberg and Alfresco exec Matt Asay. When not discussing Radiohead's release, we dug into a drunken Steve Ballmer's plan to buy Web 2.0, O'Reilly's ban on The Register, Amazon's fading one-click affair and patent trolls.

As always, you can find the whole list of topics discussed down below in the very, very detailed show notes.

In other news, and I swear that I'll only do this twice at max, my first book has shipped. It has the unfortunate name Geek Silicon Valley (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0762742399?tag=tennisherald-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0762742399&adid=0JDWWDWKGYRWFQ9EV9QC&), which is my publisher's fault. Anyone interested in the history of the area, people and companies should check it out, and so should folks who want the juicy back-story on how Silicon Valley became such a dominant force in technology.

Anyway, on to the show.

Open Season - Episode 5 (http://go.theregister.com/podcast/2007/10/23/open_season_episode_5.mp3)

The faithful can grab the Ogg Vorbis file here (http://go.theregister.com/podcast/2007/10/23/open_season_5_vorbis.ogg), and those plagued by low-bandwidth can catch a smaller, crappier quality show here (http://go.theregister.com/podcast/2007/10/23/open_season_five_lowbit.mp3).

You can subscribe to the show on iTunes here (http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=263587551) or grab the Arse feed here (http://www.theregister.co.uk/software/open_season/headlines.rss).

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Register hack Ashlee Vance has just pumped out a new book (http://theduckrabbit.com/?page=featured) that's a guide to Silicon Valley. The book starts with the electronics pioneers present in the Bay Area in the early 20th century and marches up to today's heavies. Want to know where Gordon Moore eats Chinese food, where Steve Jobs and Bono hang out or how Fairchild Semiconductor got its start? This is the book for you - available at Amazon US here (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0762742399?tag=tennisherald-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0762742399&adid=0JDWWDWKGYRWFQ9EV9QC&) or in the UK here (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Geek-Silicon-Valley-Ashlee-Vance/dp/0762742399/ref=sr_1_1/026-0095884-2224433?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192649846&sr=8-1).

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